1/10 black people killed vs. 3/90 white people killed. 10% chance vs. 3.3% chance. If they had an equal likelihood of being killed you would expect the rate to match the percentage of the population that is black.

I have really enjoyed reading your debate with /u/Aelfhere so thank you for that.

I am curious, of both of you, what your reason is for debating the existence of free will. Do you find it worthy to debate on its own merit, or is it an integral part of some larger philosophical view you hold? What do you think influences your belief in free will, or what conclusions do you draw from the belief you hold?

Personally I feel the compatibilist/determinist debate is mostly that of definitions. From my reading of your debate it seems Aelfhere would state that free will does not exist, and can not conceivable exist (because any explanation of how free will could exist is paradoxical i.e. the unmoved mover). You would agree with any of the underlying facts, but because the type of free will that Aelfhere describes is impossible in reality, claim that free will must be something else, resulting in the boundary around the self and the internal / external causal chain.

Here's the process if you want to use objects:
Pick a random y coordinate from the range you have. Spawn the object at y= randomY - 25 -object height/2 and another copy at y= randomY + 25+ object height/2.

Random storytime.
Moist panties. In my lit class in high school one of our assignments was to write an essay using our least favorite word. One of my classmates wrote an essay using as many of the words as possible ending with "Moist panties" at least three times. The girl whose word that was left the room.

Vision processing and categorizing aren't what most people think of as AI. It's easy to conceptualize what you need to make a robot that can interact with it's environment. It's hard to conceptualize what you need to do to make a robot that can make connections and inferences, have new ideas, and any of the other things traditionally connected with intelligence.

Vision processing has made huge advances recently. Look at the new Kinect, the computer can recognize humans, identify which ones they are, and identify the position and movement of their individual body parts. The Google goggles app can identify landmarks, paintings, books and more.

Circle K printed out sweepstakes only codes if you bought Mountain Dew there. Publix did the same if you purchased something like 2 24 packs at the same time. There were a lot of ways to get extra codes in the contest. Kangaroo Express had a number you could text to get a sweepstakes code per day for free.

I found the slickdeals forums in September last year just in time to get in on the contests early. I got my PS4 in the first couple weeks of the Taco Bell promotion by waking up at 5AM to enter the codes I bought the night before. With the Xbox it was just some math to figure out how much product I had to purchase to win. Came out to around $200 of Mountain Dew and Doritos so I spent a couple nights driving around buying out Walmarts and CVSs.

Burnt myself out though. Those first two months I was entering 20-30 contests online every day. Now I don't do any.

But why waste time with definitions?
That's probably the hardest part of any free will debate in my eyes. Agreeing on a definition of free will seems to be either impossible to do, or instantly clears up any misunderstanding of what the other means by free will and there is no debate.

By her own definition of free will, her blog post is just another external stimulus that may or may not have an effect on the deterministic processes in physicists brains and change their mind about free will.
The second comment on the blog sums it up pretty well I think:

That's OK, but I would contend that what you define as free will is not what actually interests people. So the reason that many people will react against you when you say that we don't have free will is simply a terminological dispute. No we don't have some mysterious ability to influence the laws of physics (whatever mixture of random and deterministic they might happen to be). But the kind of free will that people talk about when they talk about emergence and the like is not that -- it is more like what people are talking about in everyday life when they claim that they made decisions freely.